Death Row Stories
TV Show · Documentary · Crime

In America CNN is by and large still a cable news outlet, but a movement under the leadership of network president Jeff Zucker to provide more alternative, entertainment-based programming is clearly afoot, and `Death Row Stories' is a prime example. The eight-part documentary - the result of a collaboration with Academy Award-winning directors Robert Redford (`Ordinary People') and Alex Gibney (`Taxi to the Dark Side') - revisits compelling capital murder cases in the US, detailing the twists and turns involved in each as a thought-provoking exercise on the death penalty and the American justice system. `Dead Man Walking' Oscar winner Susan Sarandon is the narrator. Redford's Sundance Productions also partnered with CNN for the documentary series `Chicagoland'.

2014 · 42m
Starring Concetta Tomei, Susan Sarandon

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    Innocence & the Intern
    Tenacious legal intern Diana Holt comes across the case of a black handyman, Edward Lee Elmore, and devotes her life to saving him from a death sentence in the murder of an elderly white widow.
    35 min
  • EPISODE 2
    Ride to the Rescue
    Joyce Ride, mother of America's first female astronaut Sally Ride, becomes intrigued by the case of former law school student Gloria Killian, who had no prior criminal record but was found guilty of a brutal home invasion and murder.
    34 min
  • EPISODE 3
    Blood & Water
    No one listened to Army vet Joe D'Ambrosio's pleas of innocence in the 1988 murder of Tony Klann, until the Rev Neil Kookoothe began investigating and discovered a shocking cover-up.
    35 min
  • EPISODE 4
    Killer Cop
    Detective Marshall Frank attempts to exonerate his fellow cop James Duckett, who was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl.
    37 min
  • EPISODE 5
    Rough Justice in the Big Easy
    After petty criminal John Thompson is convicted of murder, two successful Philadelphia lawyers agree to represent him, but they soon discover that their legal rules don't necessarily apply in New Orleans.
    35 min
  • EPISODE 6
    Murder in Miami
    In 1987, Kris Maharaj receives a death sentence for a double homicide, but attorney Clive Stafford Smith uncovers evidence that opens a Pandora's box of lucrative illegal operations in Miami.
    36 min

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Cast & Crew

  • Concetta Tomei
    Narrator
  • Susan Sarandon
    Narrator
  • Robert Redford
    Producer
  • Alex Gibney
    Producer
  • Laura Michalchyshyn
    Producer
  • B‌H
    Brad Hebert
    Producer
  • D‌S
    Dave Snyder
    Producer
  • Stacey Offman
    Producer

About

Death Row Stories

Documentary

In America CNN is by and large still a cable news outlet, but a movement under the leadership of network president Jeff Zucker to provide more alternative, entertainment-based programming is clearly afoot, and `Death Row Stories' is a prime example. The eight-part documentary - the result of a collaboration with Academy Award-winning directors Robert Redford (`Ordinary People') and Alex Gibney (`Taxi to the Dark Side') - revisits compelling capital murder cases in the US, detailing the twists and turns involved in each as a thought-provoking exercise on the death penalty and the American justice system. `Dead Man Walking' Oscar winner Susan Sarandon is the narrator. Redford's Sundance Productions also partnered with CNN for the documentary series `Chicagoland'.

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CNN
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2014
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